• Article Type: General
• Product: Primo
• Product Version: 4.5.1

Problem Symptoms:
Searches for hyphenated terms produce different results if there are spaces between the words and the hyphens - as opposed to when there aren't any spaces.

For example:
"Daniel Day-Lewis" will produce less results than "Daniel Day - Lewis".

This happens when "Remove Hyphens" is checked in the Back Office under Search Engine Configuration.

Cause:
During the search, if there are spaces between the words and hyphens, like in "Daniel Day - Lewis", the hyphens are normalized out.
However, if there are no spaces -- the hyphen is not normalized out. This results in two different queries.

In the logs you will see the following:
2014-07-18 18:56:38,034 DEBUG [t-pool-223-thread-1] [c-BooleanOperator] - The query after operator normalization: daniel day-lewis > after searching daniel day-lewis
2014-07-18 18:56:44,893 DEBUG [t-pool-224-thread-1] [c-BooleanOperator] - The query after operator normalization: daniel day lewis > after searching daniel day - lewis

Resolution:
No resolution yet - issue under Development.

Category: Front End - Primo

Subject: Search

• Article last edited: 8/22/2014